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Blanchard was born in Yonkers, New York. He moved around quite a bit as an employee of General Motors.He came from a...

Jack Skaggs worked on roads in Shanghai as a POW [Annotator's Note: prisoner of war]. The POWs could take food out to...

Nick Cristiano was born in July 1925. He grew up in the Bronx, New York. There were great schools. His father owned a...

Ernest Cowell was born in January 1927 in Los Angeles, Hollywood [Annotator's Note: Los Angeles, California]. His...

Harold Jones was born in February 1924 in Mead, Colorado and grew up in Greeley, Colorado. He was a Depression [...

They had the Evans floating and had an auxiliary generator running; that meant lights and refrigeration. They were...

Frank Borrell thinks about the men he served with. They became like members of his family. Everyone tried to be friends...

John Ream remembers that in December 1944, the Japanese decided to move them. [Annotator’s Note: the Japanese were...

In the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Ira Schilling was sent to Camp Elliot, California where he joined Company L...

The Japanese had snipers and other soldiers in the Philippines before the invasion [Annotator's Note: Fall of the...

Thomas Francis Schicker and his outfit [Annotator's Note: Company H, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine...

Clint Quirk was not assigned to a ship. [Annotator’s Note: Quirk was in the Merchant Marines]. He went into the union...

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